OWA Virtual Directories Will Not recreate
Hello,I have followed all of the steps recommended by Microsoft to recreate corrupted OWA virtual directories inside IIS, but they will not reload. I have even done a complete uninstall and reinstall of Exchange. Initially, I deleted the 6 directories and then used the Metabase Explorer to clean up the rest. Then I restarted theExchange System Attendant Service. No luck. I even restarted the server. They will not load. Any help that you can offer would be a great help. I even manually created the directories with no luck. Thanks,Tom
March 8th, 2009 11:13pm
Hi,
First please ensure that you have run IISreset /force after you finished all the steps.
Then please check event log to see if any ASP.NET related event logged there. Some issues may occur if you have 32-bit version of ASP.net installed.If it is the case, then you can follow the article below to switch to 64-bit version of ASP.net.
How to switch between the 32-bit versions of ASP.NET 1.1 and the 64-bit version of ASP.NET 2.0 on a 64-bit version of Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/894435
Besides,please try to follow steps to remove and re-create OWA related virtual direcoty.
1. Remove OWA related virtual directory.
1) Remove-OwaVirtualDirectory "exchange (default web site)"
2) Remove-OwaVirtualDirectory "public (default web site)"
3) Remove-OwaVirtualDirectory "exchweb (default web site)"
4) Remove-OwaVirtualDirectory "owa (default web site)"
2. Recreat all the virtual directories using the below command:
1) New-OwaVirtualDirectory "exchange" -OwaVersion Exchange2003or2000 -VirtualDirectoryType Mailboxes -WebSiteName "Default Web Site" 2) New-OwaVirtualDirectory "public" -OwaVersion Exchange2003or2000 -VirtualDirectoryType PublicFolders -WebSiteName "Default Web Site" 3) New-OwaVirtualDirectory "exchweb" -OwaVersion Exchange2003or2000 -VirtualDirectoryType Exchweb -WebSiteName "Default Web Site" 4) New-OwaVirtualDirectory -name "owa" -OwaVersion Exchange2007 -WebSiteName "Default Web Site"
After that, please try to access OWA, If it fails, please post the error information here. Also please check event log and then post the error event here.
BTW, please try to use ExBPA to have a health check to see if any error would log there.
Regards,
Xiu
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March 10th, 2009 5:58am